QUOTE (SR5 @ pg 237)
The owner of a device, host, persona, or file can always spot it in the Matrix. For all intents and purposes, owning an icon is the same as having four marks on it.
QUOTE (SR5 @ pg 237)
Corporations and governments use this registration system to keep track of their equipment. A security guard’s weapon might be in her holster, but its owner is the corp that employs her. This makes it relatively simple to track down thieves, deserters, and looters—at least, the ones who can’t hack what they steal.
After having gotten beaten up (verbally) for suggesting that Overwatch might find it pretty easy to use the game mechanic that makes weapons present their own icon to readily identify weapons without licenses (fake or otherwise) I come across this game mechanic. Thoughts?